Q: …is there anything you wouldn’t want to do with your art, some forbidden fruit that crosses *your* boundaries, somehow?
A: For the most part, any obvious limit is more from ‘not yet’ than anything else. There are things that I do not do, but that is not the same as would not do…
I try to stick to my life and experiences. If I can manage a universal sense of it, then fine, but I try to avoid grand statements about others. I don’t like feeling preachy and I think it leaves me and my art empty at the end of it.
I leave a lot of stuff off of my radar, like racism, sexism, misogyny… mostly to stay focused on being queer, but also because so many others are handling those better than I feel I would. Plus, I do believe that finding my voice against any ‘ism’ is taking a stand against all of them.
As far as subject matter and taboo is concerned, I don’t much think I would dodge something that hits me in a strong way. I do consider it to be part of my job to make folks uncomfortable, especially in regards to arbitrarily drawn boundaries surrounding the human condition.
Perhaps, another way to put it is this: my single drive in producing art is to communicate the things burning most inside of my head; things I am driven to explain better than words allow. If anything got inside of me enough so that I needed to convey it to others in the world, I would work to do so…
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